Pi Day Celebration
Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th (3.14) around the world. Pi (16th letter of the Greek alphabet) is the
symbol used in mathematics to represent a constant — the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, which is approximately 3.14159 (5 decimal places). The Mathematics department together with the
Rokeby community, joined other students and lovers of Mathematics in the world to celebrate Pi Day. As
you can see, the Maths teachers dressed up in gorgeous black and white also wearing a designer Pi tie to
mark the occasion. The rest of the staff were treated to some pies and custard during break in the staff
room.
Students watched a video by Richard Bew explaining the following:
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What is Pi?
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Who discovered Pi?
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How was it approximated?
The film tried to explain the complete history and give an explanation of Pi in 3 minutes 14 seconds (3:14).
During period 5, Mr. Ocran visited classes to quiz all students: the Memory game – how many decimal places of Pi can you memorise? To my surprise, a Year 9 student (James Baah 9E)) was able to memorise Pi
to 33 decimal places and hence won the competition.
This is what James had to say…. ‘’ I think that Pi Day was interesting and I remembered 33 digits of Pi because when I am revising maths I use my maths dictionary to memorise the digits of Pi every week’’.
A big thank you to the Rokeby community for making Pi day celebration successful.
YOUR DIARY
On Thursday 10th March, 17 students from a variety of
Newham schools attended Rokeby for the Newham
Schools Polybat championship. The competition was
split in to two groups with the top two from each group
progressing to the finals. Adam Kamran won his group
and Semi-final in a comprehensive manner. In the final
he faced an opponent from Little Ilford School and used
tactics to great effect to take the game comfortably and
become the Newham Schools Polybat Champion.
WELL DONE!!
Build your own PC for Year 8 & 9
Thursday 24th
March
Last day before
the Easter holiday
Monday 11th
April
First day of thesummer term
Looking for a custom built pc or desktop pc?
A gaming pc or desktop computer?
Then look no further.
Come and join the computing department every
Wednesday after school and learn how to build a
PC from scratch.
Mr Milki, G7
ATTENDANCE &
PUNCTUALITY
Did you know:
90% attendance = 1/2
day missed every
week.
90% attendance over
one school year = 4
whole weeks of
missed lessons!
How is YOUR tutor
group doing?
Congratulations this
week to:
8O & 9O with 99.2%
Attendance.
9B with 98.4%
Punctuality.
WORD OF THE
WEEK
Rejuvenate
World Book Day Winners
Once you’ve found
the meaning and
made a sentence,